God's love for you - 18th February
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
They know not what they do?! My Lord, when they scourge Your Sacred Body from head to foot, one can imagine what happened after a few hundred lashes, but You revealed to St Bridget that You have received 5480 blows! They did not know what they are doing. Already disabled after the flagellation, man still put the crown of thorns on Your Head then a very heavy cross on Your Shoulder, You embraced and kissed it, You endured the unimaginable pain down to the bone on Your shoulder when You carried it, Your weaken Body fell under the weight of the cross, knees’ wounds embedded with stones, man still mercilessly pulled and flogged Your helpless Body burning with fever, they still did not know what they are doing! Oh, my sweet Jesus, You endured the unspeakable pain when man nailed Your Hands and Feet, bloodied and so horribly disfigured you hanged on the Cross, there was not one spot on Your Body that was not in torment; yet they have not stopped insulted, mocked, jest at You, You looked at them, still kindly prayed for them and said they know not what they do...But who can confidently say what they have done are not portrayal of our own sins? It is so easy to point a finger to others' sins, what about ourselves? Jesus carried the sins of the whole world from the past, present and future, for every single one of us. If only you know how much He Loves you: He asked pardon for you so you can be pardoned each time you go to Confession, He wounded for you so that you can be hidden in His Wounds, He bled for you so His Most Precious Blood can wash your sins away, He died for you so you can have Eternal Life. Christ's Passion is not a sensational and emotional story for you to listen and then forget about it. It is real and still ongoing! Think about His sufferings and what He has done for you. Accept His Invitation to love Him back and strive to sin no more.
